what was the last 'classic album' you got and were knocked out by?

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After the Gold Rush, which I'd never heard till this past weekend (though I recognized probably half the songs).

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon--I wasn't expecting to even like it, but it's fabulous.
-- andrew s (soupguil...), November 20th, 2004.

That's a bold claim. I must get that.

― piscesboy, Monday, 16 January 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Finally got Pink Moon this weekend and it's awesome! Can't believe it took me this long to get into Nick Drake.

― darin (darin), Monday, 16 January 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Marquee Moon again.

― Cracks (Crackity), Monday, 16 January 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Television Personalities - ... And Don't The Kids Just Love It

This is a classic.

― zeus (zeus), Monday, 16 January 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I bought Brian Eno's Here Come The Warm Jets last summer because it was one of those canonical records that I felt like I needed to hear but never had, and I'm quite glad I did.

I just got Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) from my grandmother for Christmas which also is equally exciting to me - I listened to it while walking around the National Gallery one afternoon in Washington DC and it was the best possible choice for that situation at that time.

― joygoat (joygoat), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 01:36 (twenty years ago)

Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Song X
This is the first time I've found myself enjoying a Metheny record, which added a little extra knock to that knockout.

― Øystein (Øystein), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 01:39 (twenty years ago)

lately i have been quite impressed with
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
and how damn good it is

― J. Lamphere (WatchMeJumpStart), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Rust Never Sleeps

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Probably Bowie's Hunky Dory. How did I manage to miss "Queen Bitch" for this long?

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 09:59 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Kate Bush - 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love'. Quite how I survived all these years without hearing 'Cloudbusting', I don't know.

Also recently heard a coupla tracks off 'Rumours', which have blown me away. Genuinely affecting MOR can be so deliciously satisfying.

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

This was about 12 years back but within one week i got both:

Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia - Fridy Night in San Francisco, and
John Mayall - The Turning Point

...blew me away

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

The English Beat - Special Beat Service

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

10cc HOW DARE YOU ( 'don't hang up' especially)

― pisces, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

critical beatdown - ultramagnetic mcs

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Comus - First Utterance

Would Xenakis' La Légende d'Eer be considered a classic? If so, that one (especially with headphones on).

― Ivan, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures, Closer, and Substance

Had liked New Order, but never got around to the orginal band. What a fool I was.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Van Morrison's Veedon Fleece. Bought it in the 90s when i first got into Van but never really got into it. I prefer it to Tupelo Honey (which I like) and at times almost has the transcendent qualities of Astral Weeks.

― dan selzer, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - I was really blown away by how good it was, I always had thought Neil Young was kind of overrated, now I've reconsidered.
One Nation Under a Groove - found it cheap at Tower
[i]Big Fun

― ablaeser, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

new order - brotherhood - never heard it back when, and it's killer
the complete stax volt singles collection (discs 1-9) - a non-stop party

― outdoor_miner, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Marquee Moon for me as well, actually. I like it more every year.
And Talk Talk's Laughing Stock managed to sneak it's way back into steady rotation. Holy hell.

― ryborg3k, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Harold Budd/Daniel Lanois/Brian Eno, The Pearl/i] (please kick my ass if I ever sell this)
Television, [i]Marquee Moon (I gave it chance after chance five or so years ago when the OMG TELEVISION was at its apex, but I'm taking to it exponentially better now, possibly because I'm playing it in the car for the first time)

― jamescobo, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

John Cale: The Island Years.

Absoltely stunning.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures, Closer, and Substance

oh wow. i remember when i did the same thing in, what, 1990. my mind really didn't have a clue what had hit it. funny: "atmosphere" came on today while i was listening to that "right time, wrong speed" john peel compilation and even now it stops me dead in my tracks.

get "still", and get the preston and paris live albums. then get the bootlegs. you jammy sod :)

for me, it's probably still "pacific ocean blue" by dennis wilson, which i spent a lot of time raving about on ILM last year. oh, and "your majesty ... we are here", of course. can an album be truly classic when it's so tragically unknown by the greater music-listening public? hell yeah. that one can.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Bowie's Berlin trilogy (Low, Heroes, Lodger)--I always thought the Changes comp was the only Bowie I'd ever need. I was wrong.

― MC, Monday, 5 March 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure how classic it is, but 'Surf's up' really hit a sweet spot.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

finally got GP/Greivous Angel last fall...always thought it couldn't live up to the hype...it does, and then some...unimpeachable...

― henry s, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Slugfuckers for sure.

― Drooone, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Van Morrison's Veedon Fleece

Yeah, same here! That one slipped through the cracks somehow until recently and it is right up there with the other great ones of the era.

Don't know if this counts, but I am really into Hall & Oates War Babies now. Never listened to it before...

― Saxby D. Elder, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club. That was in November. I need more awesome music.

― abanana, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

finally got GP/Greivous Angel last fall...always thought it couldn't live up to the hype...it does, and then some...unimpeachable...

that one was a letdown for me... the burrito bros. twofer is so much better

― abanana, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

The Heron Anthology is pretty special.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Is Secondhand Daylight classic? If not, Innervisions.

― Beep, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

Buffalo Springfield Again

I knew about half the record, but this album is really good front to back.

I don't know if they are classic as they are not real popular, but these two early Buddy Miles albums (Expressway to Your Skull & Them Changes) I recently picked up are pretty good and quite consistent. Both of Mountain's first two albums were also better than I expected front to back.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

The Songs of Leonard Cohen. Wow, I'd previously heard Suzanne and So Long, Marianne, and bought the album figuring those would be the two standouts. They're all that good!

― Z S, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

Loop - Fade Out

totally forgot about this one, and when I found it on vinyl recently I took it home and just lost my shit.

― Cameron Octigan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

'Hunky Dory' for me, too.

― zeus, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Nico - The Marble Index

― braveclub, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Talking Heads - Remain In Light

Yeah, I've been digesting the 'Heads for at least a year now but it's only in the last few months where I've actually been able to discern between albums and get a feel for some of the more nuanced tracks. Remain In Light is incredible all the way through - maybe lacking a bit of the jolliness of earlier albums but it's been replaced by this dark ethereal sound. David Byrne may not have been the worlds best singer but boy did he have control over his voice. Just watching the "Stop Making Sense" video where he takes off around the stage during a synth solo and starts running faster and faster then manages to catch the mic and sing the chorus of "Life During Wartime" has me rubbing my eyes in disbelief.
And on this album he's at his best. So many different yelps and murmurs. Born Under Punches is a weird way to start a record. Brooding, with a bassline that summons all sorts of jungle wildlife to mind and a spooky chorus, cryptic vocals. Cross Eyed And Painless ramps up the speed a little (a lot more on the live versions) and again features a killer bassline. I was sad that Byrne doesn't sing "She is moving through the spirit world" on the Great Curve, but it's still one of my favourites. Hell, there isn't a bad song on here. Even that one about people changing their faces to suit their personalities and vice versa is good.

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

it's that time again.

― pisces, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Associates - first three & Radio Sessions
Ultravox - first three
John Foxx - Metamatic / The Garden
Wah - Nah = Poo: The Art Of Bluff
Simple Minds - best-of their first 4 albums

― Mr. Odd, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

(hmm, I don't think I've listened to that English Beat album since I posted it on here a year and a half ago - I wonder if I'd still think it's a classic)

― o. nate, Thursday, 16 August 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

coltrane - a love supreme

― bstep, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

anything pre 1990 im talking here people.

!!!!

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

luther vandross' 'never too much'

― deej, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

Propaganda - A secret wish

― daavid, Friday, 17 August 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

these three albums blew me away recently:

anita baker - rapture [I knew "Sweet Love" and "Caught Up in the Rapture" of course, but the entire album is just amazing tune after amazing tune.]

Isley Brothers - Go for your Guns

The New Birth - It's Been A Long Time

― The Brainwasher, Friday, 17 August 2007 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

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